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Creating Legends: How to craft characters readers adore... or despise!
Characters are the heart of your story.
This book is for all the writers out there who want to create compelling, engaging, relatable characters that readers will adore… or despise. Learn how to invent characters based on actions, motives, and their past. Discover how archetypes—not stereotypes—should help inform your character’s deeper motives and desires. Understand how to create an emotional connection to your protagonist (and antagonist) for your reader that extends beyond real life.
This book is for all the writers out there who want to create compelling, engaging, relatable characters that readers will adore… or despise. Learn how to invent characters based on actions, motives, and their past. Discover how archetypes—not stereotypes—should help inform your character’s deeper motives and desires. Understand how to create an emotional connection to your protagonist (and antagonist) for your reader that extends beyond real life.
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86 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2018
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April 6, 2019
Creating Legends - How to craft characters readers adore ... or despise! is a comprehensive and detailed graphic eBook that includes tips and tricks for creating compelling, engaging, relatable characters.
In forty-five concise pages, Kathy Edens and Lisa Lepki, writers at ProWritingAid, an online writing editor and personal writing coach, have summarized almost everything important I’ve learned about developing characters including:
- Belief, Emotional Involvement, Clarity: what every character needs,
- Why you should throw your main character under a bus - to raise the stakes,
- Digging beyond life to create realistic characters.
There’s also a nifty graphic detailing The Psychology of Characters, links to character traits and character analysis worksheets, and even a therapist’s quiz you can take you yourself (I’m highly conceited, snobby and vain).
Its graphic style uses larger fonts for headlines and blocks of color that make it easy and fun to read.
This little, unpretentious book is big on practical tips and ideas that can be easily incorporated by authors with immediate and positive results.
In forty-five concise pages, Kathy Edens and Lisa Lepki, writers at ProWritingAid, an online writing editor and personal writing coach, have summarized almost everything important I’ve learned about developing characters including:
- Belief, Emotional Involvement, Clarity: what every character needs,
- Why you should throw your main character under a bus - to raise the stakes,
- Digging beyond life to create realistic characters.
There’s also a nifty graphic detailing The Psychology of Characters, links to character traits and character analysis worksheets, and even a therapist’s quiz you can take you yourself (I’m highly conceited, snobby and vain).
Its graphic style uses larger fonts for headlines and blocks of color that make it easy and fun to read.
This little, unpretentious book is big on practical tips and ideas that can be easily incorporated by authors with immediate and positive results.
July 16, 2025
Disappointing; not a complete waste but almost.
Besides the usual final chapter which is a complete advert for PWA and Chapter 16. Why Every Heroine Does Not Need a Love Interest, which wanders off topic “Creating Legends” into a feminist diatribe, adds very little, to the quoted book “Characters and Viewpoint” by Orson Scott Card.
My advice read that instead.
May 16, 2022
A really useful read with some good tips and examples, as well as references to other books to read further on.
Even better because a copy of this ebook was included as part of my pro-writing aid subscription so a win-win really.
Even better because a copy of this ebook was included as part of my pro-writing aid subscription so a win-win really.
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